March 2025

Lord,
may the dynamism of your Spirit give us the boldness of fraternal acts capable of transforming the face of this world. May it make us understand what you inspired in Christ Jesus,
who came to serve and reveal to us the one law of love, of God and of our sisters and brothers.
It is through Him that we pray to you, God, Father of all, blessed for ever!

Spirit who blows where you will,
assist and strengthen the Church of Christ so that it may be a sign of hope in a world in disarray.
Spirit of our baptisms,
guide catechumens in the struggle and joy of faith.
Spirit of poverty, teach us to lack a little and to rediscover a taste for your Word.
Spirit of fire, manifest yourself wherever indifference threatens to win hearts.

Lord our God,
so much inanity overloads our inner mirror where we wallow,
never at rest from having and power.
Lead us to the desert, to the fallow land of the soul ‘that pursues neither grand designs nor wonders that surpass it’,
to the simple silence that unifies desire.
We pray to you, God, always awaiting our presence,
you who are, who were and who are coming forever.

Lord,
with so many others, we go…
simple pilgrims on your paths,
rooted and yet always on the move,
tense in the march between goal and itinerancy,
torn between reality and the dream of the absolute,
always astonished to experience the power of this tenuous breath that carries us,
useless servants, happy with grace,
with praise in our hearts.

Lord our God,
you invite us to welcome your Kingdom like little children,
we who are dangerously tall and above all anxious to appear as such in the eyes of others.
Bring us back to more correctness.
Each of us is what we are in your eyes, equally loved and worthy of being loved.
Share this look, your look, with us in all our relationships.
We pray this through Jesus, who held nothing back from his position and whom you made Lord, for eternity.

God, bring us back to the place where you speak, to the secret of our hearts.
Make us more attentive to those precious moments when something of your presence touches us.
And may we believe in them enough to commit ourselves to act afterwards,
according to what we perceive to be right.
We pray this through Jesus, who is with us every day through his Spirit, until the end of time.

Father, in your hands is Life, in ours, so much ashes!
These ashes before you this morning, symbols of our wars that leave nothing but ruins,
of our insatiable selfishness that crushes all around it,
of the exploitation of nature that we plunder,
of our cult of money that goes up in smoke…
These ashes are also a reminder that we are made of clay, that we are ephemeral and that death will see us all return to the dust of the earth!
But it’s not sadness that is on our foreheads this morning, but hope.
For dust… is the seed of new life, and in asking you to bless these ashes, Father, we are making an act of faith,
that we ask you to accept, in the promise of Jesus your Son, He who is the Resurrection of us all, for ever.

Lord God, you created us in your image, fashioned us from the fine dust of the earth, and clothed us in the beauty of divine natur
with the beauty of divine nature. But we have broken that covenant, lost the likeness, clasped our hands in the vanity of idols?
So you sent your Son Jesus, so that his humanity might clothe these beings of dust that we are with your light.
dust that we are, and that his Spirit might regenerate us! You want our dry bones to live and dance
for your service and the service of our sisters and brothers.
In this season of Lent, we resume our journey, on the dusty ground of this world, but already
renewed in faith, hope and charity, by the grace of the Resurrection of Christ, your only Son and our
and our brother.

Thank you, Lord, for the prayer that awakens goodness in us.
Thank you, Lord, for the prayer that opens our horizons to hope.
Thank you, Lord, for prayer that adorns the ordinary with the extraordinary.
Thank you, Lord, for prayer that weaves the threads of a fraternal network.
Thank you, Lord, for prayer that resists the easy way out.
Thank you, Lord, for prayer that opens the door to trust.